You’ve likely heard the saying “The customer is always right.” But have you stopped to think about why the customer is so vital to a business? It’s not just about having a great location or high-quality products. Without customers purchasing…
To thrive in the current business climate, agility is key and organizations need adaptable teams that can pivot quickly. This requires team members with versatile skill sets possessing both deep expertise and broad capabilities. This is where the concept of…
When defining software requirements, various specification types are used to capture critical details. Two of the most common categories are functional and non-functional requirements. Though with distinct focuses, both provide key pieces of the overall product picture. We’ll compare functional…
Project Document Version Control is a critical aspect of effective project management. While working on any project, maintaining order in your documentation becomes crucial. Whether managing resources, timelines, or team efforts, you must have a system to track and control…
When managing a project, determining how long each activity will take is crucial for developing an accurate schedule. But estimating activity durations isn’t as simple as just guessing. It requires carefully analyzing the work involved, resources available, and project constraints.…
Lean-Agile principles provide the foundation for SAFe and inform the roles and practices of the framework. These immutable tenets stem from Lean and Agile values and methods, emphasizing systems thinking, embracing variability, decentralized decision-making, and organizing around value. By integrating…
The Project Procurement Management Plan is a key document in project management. It outlines how a project will acquire goods and services from external sources and is crucial for managing costs, timelines, and vendor relationships. As a project manager, you’ll…
Effective communication is the lifeblood of any successful project. As a Project Manager, understanding how to facilitate open channels for information flow can make or break your team’s performance. One concept particularly relevant for the PMP exam is calculating the…
Scrum is an Agile framework centered on empiricism. But what does empiricism really mean? In Scrum, it refers to basing decisions on observation and experimentation. A key empirical practice is empirical process control which allows inspecting and adapting the Scrum…
Project managers know that uncertainty is an ever-present challenge. To overcome this and make informed decisions, they rely on techniques like three-point estimating. This project estimation approach considers three scenarios, best case, worst case, and most likely, to evaluate probabilities…